Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-13
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. O'BRIEN'S BITTER TASK. Toronto Shuts Its Halls
 Against Him..
 TWENTY MILES OF FLAMES. Great Fires Raging In The
 Forests. A SHARP THRUST AT ROYALTY. Mrs. EnrnOns Calls On The
 Police.
| SHARP THRUST AT ROYALTY.

O,RRIEN's CRUSADE IN CANADA. Thousands Greet Him In Quebec and | Listen to His Impassioned Arraigns ] ment of Lord LansdoWne.
 QUEBEC, May 12.-A great throng gather | ed at the railroad station to-day to welcome l William O'Brien. He was accompanied by l Dennis Kilbride, one of Lord Lansdowne's | evicted tenants, and Charles Ryan, of the Dublin Freeman's Journal. The party were l escorted to carriages that were set apart for l MT. O'Brien, being drawn by four black horses, plumed and decorated with Irish and French flags. The procession passed through the principal streets to the St. Louis Hotel and later MT. O'Brien was taken to the local Parliament house and introduced to many
 of the members. He was cordially received
 and introduced in both houses The Academy
 of Music was crowded in the evening and
 Mir. O'Brien was received with
 frantic enthusiasm. Jeremiah Galla-
 gher, president of the local league,
 severely denounced the governor-general in
 his opening speech. MT. O'Brien then said
 he believed good many prejudices and mis-
 understandings which had arisen with refer
 ence to his visit were being already dispelled
 and he expressed his confidence that the more
 the subject was thrashed out the more severe
 ly every humane and liberty loving man in
 Canada would condemn the conduct of Lord Lansdowne and the more they would recog-
 nize that this visit was the only means left to
 avert the total destruction of an entire com-
 munity of oppressed and cruelty wronged
 tenants. The Montreal Herald of to-day, he said, took up the position, with which l do not for one moment quarrel, that the Cana dian people would not take on the statement Of others the assertion that Lord Lansdowne
 was as black as he was painted until the other side was heard. I invite and challenge Lord Lansdowne to dispute 8 single fact which the Herald says should not be accept ed until he has had an opportunity of doing this. In Q free country like this the press was as open to him as to me (applause] and as matter of fact Lord Lans- availed himself of the ordinary channels of newspaper defense. The only refuge now of her defenders appears to be in the absurd notion that it was as governor general of Canada and not as an Irish evictor that I am here to arraign him. If I be wrong in inviting public condemnation of the Lugga- curran evictions, then the members of the Canadian parliament were wrong in present ing resolutions denouncing the infamous landlords and the coercion system in Ireland. hold that it is the highest right and duty ccnstitutionally of nation enjoying the blessings of self-government to know whether the ruler of the country was not himself for getting the very injustice which the Canadian parliament deprecated and abhorred. Either they ought to expunge their resolutions of sympathy for Ireland from the books of the Canadian parliament or they ought to acknowledge that their ruler should pay little more deference to the principles enunciated by the representatives of the Ca nadian people. The days are gone by when we heard any talk of the divine right of kings, and it is little too late in the day in this free continent ot America to attempt to set up any divice right of governor general to commit injustice and wrong and to ravage the homes of whole peaceable and cruelty rack-rented tenantry